Ashby Monk
Executive & Research Director
Stanford Research Initiative on Long-Term Investing
Dr. Ashby Monk is currently a Senior Research Engineer, School of Engineering at Stanford University and holds the position of Executive Director of the Stanford Research Initiative on Long-Term Investing. Ashby has more than 20 years of experience studying and advising investment organizations. He has authored multiple books and published 100s of research papers on institutional investing. His latest book, The Technologized Investor, won the 2021 Silver Medal from the Axiom Business Book Awards in the Business Technology category. Outside of academia, Ashby has co-founded several companies that help investors make better investment decisions, including Real Capital Innovation (acquired by Addepar), FutureProof, GrowthsphereAI, Long Game Savings (acquired by Truist), NetPurpose, D.A.T.A., SheltonAI, and ThirdAct. He is co-founder and managing partner of KDX, a venture capital firm focused on investment technologies. He is a member of the CFA Institute’s Future of Finance Advisory Council and was named by CIO Magazine as one of the most influential academics in the institutional investing world. He received his Doctorate in Economic Geography at the University of Oxford, holds a Master’s in International Economics from the Université de Paris I - Pantheon Sorbonne, and has a Bachelor’s in Economics from Princeton University. EXPERIENCE EDUCATION UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD PhD Economic Geography 2005 - 2008 STANFORD UNIVERSITY Executive and Research Director Stanford Long-Term Investing Nov 2021 - Present UNIVERSITY OF PARIS I MA, International Economics 2003 - 2004 Executive Director, Global Projects Center Jun 2011 - Nov 2021 PRINCETON UNIVERSITY AB, Economics 1995 - 2000 ADDEPAR Strategic Advisor Jul 2023 - Present Head of Research Jan 2021 - Jul 2023 SKILLS ● ● ● ● thirdACT CSO/CoFounder Feb 2016 - Present Research Pension Funds Economics Long-Term Investing Deception And Truth Analysis (D.A.T.A.), Inc Founding Advisor May 2021 - Present NET PURPOSE Founding Advisor, Board Member July 2018 - Present